The Russian company Gazprom Neft has shipped its first cargo with Arctic oil to China via the Northern Sea Route. The company claims it took 47 days to deliver a cargo with 144,000 tonnes of light Novy Port oil grade to the Chinese port of Yantai on the Bohai Sea from Russia’s north-western city of Murmansk. Before this shipment, Gazprom Neft, the country’s third biggest oil company by output, was already using the NSR for exports to Europe and shipped over 40 million tonnes of Arctic oil to Europe since 2013.
